Seminar Series|2012-2013

Neuroscience and Public Policy Seminar Series

2007-2008 | 2008-2009 | 2009-2010 | 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013


Fall Semester 2012

September 14, 2012
Nita Farahany, Duke University School of Law
On Cognitive Liberty [Poster]

October 19, 2012
Michael Koenigs, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Neurobiology of Psychopathy: Insights from Brain Imaging and Implications for Law [Poster]

November 9, 2012
Joseph Newman, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Attention Bottleneck Model of Psychopathy: Implications for Self-Regulation, Violence, Neural Correlates, and Cognitive Remediation [Poster]

December 14, 2012
Thomas Kalil, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Policy Entrepreneurship for Science, Technology, and Innovation [Poster] [Presentation]



Spring Semester 2013

February 8, 2013
Pilar Ossorio and Ronald Kalil, UW-Madison Law School and School of Medicine and Public Health
Is Neuroscience Contributing to Our Assessment of Criminal Responsibility?

March 15, 2013
Jay Giedd, Child Psychiatry, NIMH and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Teen Brain: Insights from Neuroimaging [Poster] [Presentation]

April 19, 2013
Louis Reichardt, Neuroscience Program and Department of Physiology, UCSF
Blurring of Health and Disease: Impacts of Genetics, Circuit Analysis & Brain Imaging on Our Understanding of Legal Responsibility, Limitations of the Imperfect Individual Human's Brain [Poster] [Presentation]

May 10, 2013
Jed Raykoff, United States District Court Judge, Southern District of New York; Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia University
My Neurons Made Me Do It! -- How Neuroscience is Challenging Our Views of Legal and Moral Responsibility [Poster]